King David

Famous quotes containing the words king and/or david:

    Upon Saint Crispin’s day
    Fought was this noble fray,
    Which fame did not delay
    To England to carry.
    On when shall Englishmen
    With such acts fill a pen,
    Or England breed again
    Such a King Harry?
    Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

    Though once there were more whales cast up here, I think that it was never more wild than now.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)